Police/Court
Wendell (Leo) Frame was found not guilty Friday on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person older than 14 after a two-day jury trial in Edgartown district court.
A 21-year-old man turned himself in to police Tuesday after allegedly breaking into Alley’s General Store over the weekend, police said. Police said Geoffrey B. McCullough of Hingham will be charged with breaking and entering, malicious destruction of property and larceny.
Adam M. Smith, a 27-year-old Berkeley, Calif. man visiting Martha’s Vineyard as part of a bachelor party weekend, was arraigned Tuesday in Edgartown district court on three counts of rape, threatening to commit a crime, and intimidating a victim.
Edgartown police are investigating the reported theft last week of $50,000 worth of jewelry belonging to reality TV star Kelly Killoren Bensimon.
The Aquinnah fire department has a new tool to respond to water emergencies thanks to a donation from Ernie Boch Jr.
Oak Bluffs police said a missing three-year-old child was found safe early Saturday morning with the help of a police dog. Police said they found the child, who was discovered missing by her parents early in the morning, several hundred yards from a road.